Paeroa College

Te Ara Huarau | School Profile Report 

Background

This Profile Report was written within nine months of the Education Review Office and Paeroa College working in Te Ara Huarau, an improvement evaluation approach used in most English Medium State and State Integrated Schools. For more information about Te Ara Huarau see ERO’s website. www.ero.govt.nz

Context

Paeroa College, located in the Hauraki District, provides education for students in Years 9 to 13 and Technology education for students in the wider district. The school’s bi-lingual pathway provides an opportunity for students to learn in Te Reo Māori and English. Paeroa College strives to ‘excell as a courageous, innovative, can-do community’.

Paeroa College’s strategic priorities for improving outcomes for learners are to:

• provide ākonga with an aspirational, integrated and localised curriculum
• empower all ākonga to engage meaningfully in education through regular attendance
• prioritise identity, belonging and wellbeing for all.

You can find a copy of the school’s strategic and annual plan on Paeroa College’s website.

ERO and the school are working together to evaluate the extent to which coherent, school-wide evaluation systems are supporting ongoing refinements that support students to access aspirational, chosen pathways.

The rationale for selecting this evaluation is the school already has robust internal evaluation and planning practices in place. This evaluation provides a further opportunity to refine those practices to support continuous improvement for equitable and excellent outcomes.

The school expects to see equitable and excellent outcomes for all students as a result of:

• student information and stakeholder voice being gathered and analysed to inform evaluation of improvement initiatives at all levels of the school
• evaluation being used consistently to inform ongoing decision making and strategic planning focused on students accessing aspirational pathways
• embedded systems for sustainable, iterative and collaborative evaluation and planning.

Strengths 

The school can draw from the following strengths to support its goal for students to access aspirational, chosen pathways:

• a highly responsive and increasingly integrated curriculum that is tailored to the needs and interests of learners
• leadership that actively pursues its vision for improvement
• an environment where positive relationships support connection and inclusion.

Where to next?

Moving forward, the school will prioritise continuing to:

• use high quality student achievement information and stakeholder voice to inform evaluation and improvement at all levels of the school
• ensure that evaluation findings inform improvement planning in a coherent, iterative and sustainable way
• ensure that evaluation and decision making is focused on equitable and excellent outcomes for all.

ERO’s role will be to support the school in its evaluation for improvement cycle to improve outcomes for all learners. ERO will support the school in reporting their progress to the community. The next public report on ERO’s website will be a Te Ara Huarau | School Evaluation Report and is due within three years. 

Shelley Booysen
Director of Schools

7 February 2024 

About the School

The Education Counts website provides further information about the school’s student population, student engagement and student achievement. educationcounts.govt.nz/home